Osamu Shimomura
Osamu Shimomura (born August 27, 1928, Fukuchiyama, Japan; died 2018), was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist. Shimomura's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Asahi Prize.
Osamu Shimomura’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Osamu
Osamu Shimomura’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What Osamu’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on O (6) and closes on U (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Osamu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Osamu apart
The Asahi Prize came in 2006, when Osamu Shimomura was 78.
Osamu Shimomura was taught at Nagasaki Medical College and Nagoya University.
Cause of death is recorded as senility.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia files Osamu Shimomura under People from Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Scientists from Kyoto Prefecture and Organic chemists.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908) and Jamala (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Nagasaki Medical College and Nagoya University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2008), Person of Cultural Merit (2008) and Order of Culture (2008)
- Cause of death
- senility
- Citizenship
- Japan and Empire of Japan
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
Osamu, according to the stars
Core essence
Osamu notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Osamu is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Osamu is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Osamu needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Osamu wants to be loved
Osamu wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Osamu and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Osamu creates
How Osamu makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Osamu creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Osamu is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Osamu is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Osamu leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Osamu scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Osamu's birth date. Working below.
Where Osamu sits
Six lines
Osamu’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Osamu Shimomura
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fukuchiyama on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Fukuchiyama that night
Computed for 35.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sulafat stood nearest the zenith over Fukuchiyama at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.9° above the horizon in Lyra.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
Fukuchiyama sits at 35.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Fukuchiyama at all: they sit past the −54.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 86% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Fukuchiyama, Japan
The death is recorded at Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Osamu Shimomura: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Osamu's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Osamu Shimomura's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 27, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Osamu Shimomura was born on August 27, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Osamu Shimomura's birth date, August 27, 1928, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Osamu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Osamu Shimomura's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Osamu Shimomura combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Osamu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.8° orb
Osamu’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.4° to 2.2° orb
Osamu’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussextilePluto0.7° to 1.9° orb
Osamu’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.2° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.6° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssextileUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Osamu’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 10°06′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°26′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 9°20′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 16°01′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres square Mars 1.4°
- Eros square Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
Osamu’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 6 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Osamu’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°
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- Lyndon B. Johnson1908
- Jamala1983
- Deco1977
- Mark Webber1976
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Martin EvansEnglish developmental biologist
- Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
- Pearl S. BuckChinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary
Other Virgo Dragon charts
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- Alexander SkarsgårdSwedish actor
- Jon BernthalAmerican actor
Other Steadfast Storytellers
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- Christian KolokoCameroonian basketball player (born 2000)
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Osamu’s cards
Computed from August 27, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Osamu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205345 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Prolineserver (talk), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Osamu Shimomura at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Osamu Shimomura.
Quick answers about Osamu Shimomura’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Osamu Shimomura?
- Osamu Shimomura was a Virgo: born August 27, 1928, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 27, 1928 birth.
- How tall was Osamu Shimomura?
- Osamu Shimomura was 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Osamu Shimomura's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 6 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
